HILLSBORO, Ore. – There are plenty of ghost stories to go around for Halloween, but there may one with local ties.
The charming
Venetian Theater and Bistro in downtown Hillsboro has quite a history.
According to its website:
The theater portion (not including the auditorium) was originally built in 1888 to house the First National Bank of Hillsboro. In 1911, the bank moved to the Cady building on the southwest corner of Third and Main Streets.
Any building dating back to the 1880s is bound to have plenty of stories surrounding it, but the Venetian has some “special” ones.
Unexplained audible footsteps; lights and music turning on and off; the kitchen flooded with water, but nothing gets wet; whispering in an empty room; and someone who simply disappears when told that it’s closing time and time to leave.
Denzil Scheller and Saxony Peterson, the owners of the Venetian, think it’s haunted, but they don’t know why the ghosts and other unexplained goings-on are at the building that’s been around before automobiles. Scheller and Peterson invited ghost hunters with
Rain City Paranormal to investigate the location.
While ghost hunting is no scientific endeavor, the investigators said there was plenty of paranormal activity going on at the Venetian.
What do you think?
